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The Cole Group is committed to providing educators with the opportunity to enhance their knowledge, awareness, and skills in an effort to deliver meaningful and effective services to student-athletes and promote student AND athlete achievement. Through professional experience, research, and practice, we have compiled resources and discovered effective techniques to assist you with providing services to student-athletes.

Listed below are ways The Cole Group can assist you with augmenting service delivery to student-athletes:

We can provide information and training to School Counselors in the areas of:

Recruiting and working with college recruiters.
Academic monitoring and creation of academic plans for student-athletes.
Consulting with other school professionals regarding problems and needs of student-athletes.
Individual and group counseling for student-athletes.
High school course selection.
Academic support for student-athletes.
Conducting workshops outlining time management, career development, and college planning and transitioning.
Consulting with parents/guardians of recruited and non-recruited student-athletes.
Establishing parent education services that focus on the needs of student-athletes.
Helping student-athletes transfer what they learn in sport to school.
Developing an information clearinghouse for outside resources that could benefit student-athletes.
Evaluating and assessing the strengths and challenges of the school counseling program for student-athletes.
Discussing the consequences of over-identifying with athletics.
Assisting student-athletes with goal setting, time and stress management, decision making, and coping strategies.
Preparing student-athletes for standardized testing.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA).

We can provide information and training to Teachers in the areas of:

Offering individualized assistance to student-athletes.
Providing weekly progress reports to student-athletes, school counselors, and parents/guardians.
Teaching student-athletes to work effectively and efficiently in short time frames.
Assisting student-athletes with developing effective note-taking and study skills.
Showing student-athletes how to schedule and utilize study time.
Test-taking.
Referring student-athletes to school counselors for individual and group counseling.

We can provide information and training to School Administrators in the areas of:

Providing continued support to school counselors and teachers who work closely with student-athletes.
Collaborating with parents/guardians regarding the needs of student-athletes.
Scheduling regular meetings with counseling and coaching staff to discuss challenges and/or concerns about student-athletes.
Getting involved with workshops and in-service trainings related to student-athletes.
Providing opportunities for school counselors to attend professional development trainings related to student-athletes.

We can provide information and training to Coaches in the areas of:

Emphasizing the importance of academics.
Sportsmanship.
Presenting high school and college requirements.
Supporting school counselors and teachers with the academic development of student-athletes.
Communicating with parents/guardians about the needs of their student-athlete.
Discussing the consequences about over-identifying with athletics.
Sport retirement.
Competitive stress and burnout.
Meeting with parents/guardians to discuss college recruitment.
Referring student-athletes to school counselors for individual and group counseling.
Discussing the realities of obtaining a college scholarship and playing time.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA).

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